Keeping up with the TV standards
Thinking about televisions and the evolving TV standards is something of a pain for most of us.
Just when it looked like we’d soon be getting a free TV with the cornflakes, they changed the goal posts yet again. The majority of people were quite content with TVs weighing in around 28” for their main room or so, the plumetting price of LCD style ones means that now it’s commonplace to think of around 40” to be the minimum size for one’s main room and the typical 16” bedroom set has now largely been replaced by 20” or greater models.
Whilst this inflation in size has gone on (accompanied by a rapid drop in prices) we’ve also moved from 4:3 ratio to 16:9 and from “normal” to HD-ready to full-HD TVs. As well as the picture the manufacturers have quietly added surround sound and home cinema facilities to almost all TVs on the market and even more quietly made the majority of them multi-standard so that they’ll play the American NTSC and the European PAL signals (this is rarely documented though).
As you’ll probably gather this is probably one of the most confusing times to be buying a new TV for many years!
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